Smith AEROSTAR 601P
N260CA is a Smith AEROSTAR 601P, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cielo Azul Aviation LLC, an LLC in Texico, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2009 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601P · all AEROSTAR 601Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 61P-0268-055
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 144 mph
- Transponder code
- A27F30 (octal 50477460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2009
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 11, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00861291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cielo Azul Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Clovis Municipal Airport
427 Cr 12.5
Texico, NM 88135-9776
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N260CA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Cielo Azul Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2009, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61P-0268-055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N260CA according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N260CA: Accident on May 6, 1990 at Chandler, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Siai-Marchetti SF 260 · operated under 091
THE SECOND PILOT'S OVER ROTATION AND THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO ADEQUATELY SUPERVISE THE CONDUCT OF THE FLIGHT AND TO MAKE A TIMELY CORRECTIVE ACTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA167 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data